Health, Education and Women's and Girls’ Rights and Empowerment in Afghanistan

Overview

The call will fund projects that support the delivery of basic needs services to Afghans, especially women and girls, in one or more of the following three programming areas: 

1. Quality, accessible, gender-responsive health services for the most marginalized (including women and girls in all their diversity, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older persons, and other marginalized groups). 
    
2. Demand-driven skills training, particularly for women and girls in all their diversity, in areas such as literacy and numeracy, digital skills, life skills, business skills, and other relevant technical and vocational skill areas. 
    
3. Inclusive services that protect and advance the rights and empowerment of all Afghans, with a focus on gender, ethnic and religious minorities, underserviced populations including those impacted by disability, and support to women-led groups. 

Projects must demonstrate a practical approach to operating in the current Afghanistan context, ideally while applying creative and innovative ways of overcoming the challenges for Afghans to access the targeted services, especially women and girls in all their diversity. All initiatives supported through this call must ensure the inclusion of women in the delivery of the services and activities, and that women and girls are included as direct beneficiaries. 

Within the scope of the three programming areas specified above, projects that align with the Women’s Voice and Leadership Program will be eligible for consideration under this call.

Please note that your organization may only apply to this call twice as an applicant/signatory. If more than two applications are received identifying the same organization as a signatory, only the first two submitted concept notes (as identified by the date/timestamp in the Partners@International portal) will be assessed in this process.

Duration: Your proposed project will last up to four years. 
Geographic scope: Projects implemented inside Afghanistan, as well as remote, regional, or diaspora-focused activities will be considered as long as there is a clear development outcome for the people of Afghanistan. 
Cost sharing: Your organization will provide at least 5% of the total eligible direct project costs over the life of the project in cash and/or inkind, in accordance with GAC’s Policy on Cost-Sharing for Grant and Non-Repayable Contribution Agreements. Your organization must certify that it will meet this requirement in the Organization Attestation form, which must be signed and included with your application.